SHAO, Mingwang
Ph.D., Professor
Education and Professional Experience
1978.09-1982.06: He Fei University of Technology, B.S. in Chemical Engineering
1986.09-1989.06:East China University of Science and Technology,M.S.in Chemical Engineering
2000.09-2003.06:University of Science and Technology of China,Ph.D. in Chemistry
2003.11-2005.10:Senior Research Assistant in Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong
2000.07-2008.07: Professor in College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Normal University
2008.08-present: Professor inInstitute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University
Research Interests
Synthesis of solid materials (silicon-based materials, carbon-based materials, precious metals, etc.)
Green catalysis (photocatalysis and electrocatalysis)
Nanoscale devices (generator and photosensors)
Sensors (surface enhanced Raman and fluorescence, electrochemical and gas sensors).
Research Experience and Accomplishments
Our group has published more than 300 papers indexed by SCI including Nat. Commun., Joule, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Nano Lett., ACS Nano, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Adv. Func. Mater., Small and so on. The papers are cited about 10000 times and the H index is 50. Research supports include presiding three National Natural Science Foundation (NSFC) general grant, and co-investigating in a 973 program, one National Key Research and Development Program and one National MCF Energy R&D Program.
1T-IrO2 was synthesized with thermal-assisted mechanochemical method and served as an effective OER electrocatalyst (Nat. Commun.); 3R-IrO2 was synthesized (Joule); Trigonal-RhO2 was prepared and used as HER electrocatalyst (Nat. Commun.); The electrochemical hydrogen evolution using silicon and rhodium nanomaterials as co-catalysts in acidic systems was first described in Nat. Commun. The experimental and theoretical results showed that the Si-Rh nanomaterial has better activity than platinum catalyst under large current; In the further work of ACS Nano, Ir nanoparticles with a diameter of about 2.2 nm were uniformly loaded on the surface of silicon nanowires through Si-H bond. Under the synergies of SiNW, the catalytic efficiency of hydrogen evolution of its unit metal atom (Ir atom) reached the maximum known hydrogen evolution catalyst material at the time of publication. Silicon nanowires with electret effect were first discovered and used in the preparation of nanogenerators, which were published in Nano Lett; Excellent photocatalytic activity of hydrogen-saturated silicon nanowires has been observed for the first time, which were published in JACS; The catalyst patterning using fluid flow and the growth of silicon nanowire arrays were published in Chem. Commun., which was the cover and hot article, and has gained high comment; The Raman signals of rhodamine 6G, TNT, crystal violet and bovine serum albumin could be obtained by using silver vanadate as the substrate for surface enhanced Raman study, which have potential usage in food safety and anti-terrorism detection. The paper was published in Chem. Commun. as cover and hot article.
Selected Publications
1.Qian Dang#, Haiping Lin2#, Zhenglong Fan#, Lu Ma#, Qi Shao1*, Yujin Ji, Fangfang Zheng, Shize Geng, Shi-Ze Yang*, Ningning Kong, Wenxiang Zhu, Youyong Li*, Fan Liao, Xiaoqing Huang* and Mingwang Shao*，Iridium Metallene Oxide for Acidic Oxygen Evolution Catalysis，Nat. Commun.，2021,12,6007, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26336-2.
2.Zhenglong Fan#,Yujin Ji#, Qi Shao*, Shize Geng,Wenxiang Zhu, Yang Liu*, Fan Liao,Zhiwei Hu,Yu-Chung Chang,Chih-Wen Pao,Youyong Li,Zhenhui Kang*, Mingwang Shao*, Extraordinary acidic oxygen evolution on new phase 3R-iridium oxide, Joule, 2021，5，3221-3234, DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2021.10.002.
3.Qingyao Wu, Jingjing Cao, Xiao Wang, Yan Liu, Yajie Zhao, Hui Wang, Yang Liu*, Hui Huang, Fan Liao, Mingwang Shao* and Zhenghui Kang*, A metal-free photocatalyst for highly efficient hydrogen peroxide photoproduction in real seawater, Nat. Commun., 2021, 12, 483, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20823-8.
4. Minqi Sheng, Binbin Jiang, Bin Wu, Fan Liao, Xing Fan, Haiping Lin*, Youyong Li, Yeshayahu Lifshitz*, Shuit-Tong Lee, Mingwang Shao*, Approaching the Volcano Top: Iridium/Silicon Nanocomposites as Efficient Electrocatalysts for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction, ACS Nano, 2019, 13, 2786. Doi: 10.1021/acsnano.8b07572.
5. Yafei Cheng, Shunkai Lu, Fan Liao, Liangbin Liu, Yanqing Li*, Mingwang Shao*, Rh-MoS2 Nanocomposite Catalysts with Pt-like Activity for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2017, 27, 1700359. Doi: 10.1002/adfm.201700359.
6. Lili Zhu, Haiping Lin, Youyong Li*, Fan Liao, Yeshayahu Lifshitz, Minqi Sheng, Shuit-Tong Lee*, Mingwang Shao*, The Rhodium/Silicon Co-Electrocatalyst Design Concept to Surpass the Platinum Hydrogen Evolution Activity at High Overpotentials, Nat. Commun., 2016, 7, 12272. Doi: 10.1038/ncomms12272.
7. Baoquan Sun*, Mingwang Shao*, Shuit-Tong Lee, Nanostructured Silicon Used for Flexible and Mobile Electricity Generation, Adv. Mater., 2016, 28, 10539. Doi: 10.1002/adma.201601012.
8.Zhenglong Fan,# Fan Liao,# Huixian Shi, Yang Liu*, Qian Dang, Mingwang Shao* and Zhenhui Kang*, One-step direct fixation of atmospheric CO2 by Si-H surface in solution, iScience, 2020, 23, 100806, DOI:10.1016/j.isci.2019.100806.
9.Binbin Jiang ‡, Xing Fan ‡, Qian Dang, Fan Liao, Youyong Li, Haiping Lin*, Zhenhui Kang*, Mingwang Shao*, Functionalization of metal oxides with thiocyanate groups: a general strategy for boosting oxygen evolution reaction in neutral media, Nano Energy, 2020, 76, 105079, DOI:10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.105079.
10. Zhenglong Fan#, Fan Liao#, Yujin Ji#, Yang Liu*, Hui Huang, Dan Wang, Kui Yin, Haiwei Yang, Mengjie Ma, Wenxiang Zhu, Meng Wang, Zhenhui Kang* Youyong Li, Mingwang Shao*, Zhiwei Hu*, Qi Shao*, Coupling of Nanocrystal Hexagonal Array and Two-Dimensional Metastable Substrate Boosts H2-Production, Nat. Commun., Accepted.
Contact Information:
Phone：0512-65880953
E-mail: mwshao@suda.edu.cn